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# Principal AI Data Engineer with World Leading Energy Company

- **Company:** Eaglecliff Recruitment
- **Location:** Slough, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Microsoft Azure, Big Data, Extract Transform Load (ETL), DevOps, Python (Programming Language), Object-Oriented Software Development, SQL Databases, Pytorch, Large Language Models, Prompt Engineering, Data Lakes, Spark Streaming, Machine Learning Operations, Video Streaming, Virtual Agents, GPT, Databricks
- **Published:** August 3, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.apply4u.co.uk/jobs/x/42626353/

## About the Role

8-12+ years' experience delivering large scale Data science or AI Projects Strong knowledge of LLMs (GPT, Llama, Claude, Mistral) and their reasoning capabilitiesDeep Databricks experience (DLT, Delta Lake, Unity Catalog governance)Solid grasp of streaming technologies (Spark Structured Streaming, Autoloader)Python, SQL, or Scala proficiencyExperience with ETL/ELT, data modelling, and data architectureAzure cloud experience
With a focus within Energy Trading, Oil & Gas, Financial Markets and Commodities, we offer a transparent Recruitment Service that has proven to be reliable and effective for over 40 years. We are ISO accredited and proud of our excellent TrustPilot Reviews.
Eaglecliff Ltd is acting in the capacity of an employment agency for permanent recruitment and an employment business for contractor resourcing.

## Description

Build and evaluate GenAI/Agentic AI prototypes (Copilot Studio, Azure AI Foundry, Databricks Mosaic AI, Genie, MLflow) Design and tune RAG systems - embeddings, prompt engineering, evaluationBuild AI agents using LangChain, LangGraph, AutoGen, and similar frameworksDeploy models via Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Foundry, and DockerWrite clean, modular Python (OOP, Pydantic, PyTorch) following solid DevOps/CI-CD practicesManage large-scale text and structured datasets on DatabricksPartner closely with commercial stakeholders to align AI solutions with business needs


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